World Cup: FIFA anti-racist monitor calls for removal of video referee after gesture associated with white supremacism

Germany and Curaçao
Reuters
FIFA's World Cup discrimination monitor on Monday requested the removal of a video referee after he allegedly made a hand gesture associated with white supremacist groups.
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During the official broadcast of Germany's opening match against Curaçao on Sunday, images showed the team of video referees before the start of the game. On that occasion, Shaun Evans, from Australia, made an "OK" sign with his right hand in front of his right leg. Although the match was played in Houston, the video referees work from the World Cup broadcast center in Dallas.
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In 2019, the gesture, formed by the thumb and index finger joined in a circle, with the other fingers extended, was included by the League Anti-Defamation (ADL), a New York-based organization, in its database of hate symbols.
"According to our experts, the gesture used clearly resembles the inverted 'OK' sign, used as a symbol of 'white power' in global far-right circles," Fare network, a long-time partner of FIFA and UEFA in monitoring racist and discriminatory chants, flags and symbols at international matches, said in a statement.
"It is clear that this official should not exercise any more role in this World Cup", declared Fare, who classified the gesture as "neo-Nazi".
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